I think the difference is people are getting genuine traveler folk mixed up with "Knackers", and I'm not bein racist at all, Southerners call them "Pikeys", the Irish and the Travelers I know all call them "Knackers", these are the "don't give a sh1t" thieving brawling dodgy buggers that people are on about, unfortunately everyone gets tarred with the same brush far to often.
Its like calling all asian people Pakies, or in "tyson's" case calling black people "coloured"! sometimes its just ignorance :thumbs-up: